The objective
The objective of the NGO/DPI Executive Outreach Project is to identify and recruit NGOs in Panama to affiliate with the DPI/NGO section at the UN Headquarter in New York City. Graduate students from Long Island University’s United Nations Graduate Certificate Programme has spent one week in Panama and meet representative NGO candidates. The Executive Committee will support their affiliation applications.

The programme had made a significant achievement with the frist project in Costa Rica, 2007 and we once again see this as the opportunity to expand our work to other countries in Latin America. Panama is one of the most potential country that has been very active on the civil society profile. There are quite numbers of the NGOs in Panama, the country has however only two NGOs that have been affiliatted with the UN. Therefore, we determine to increase that number and by making this effort, our "LIU and NGO/DPI Executive Committee Outreach Project" will be a stepping stone that leads us to the goal.